One of World's Youngest Founders Doesn't Understand Kids These Days
Even Chris Poole, who founded the 4chan online community when he was 15, says he hasn't a clue what teens do online today. Read story
Inside the Acquisition: 3 Start-up Follies
There's no such thing as a fast, simple, billion-dollar check. Three founders explain the dark, dirty, and occasionally comical aspects of their exits. Read story
Hit Me: Inside San Francisco's Founders Fight Club
Scenes from Michael the Boxer, the San Francisco gym where the technorati go for a bloody good workout. Read story
Online Notes Save the Day
Students at 4,500 schools and universities can sleep in knowing that Course Hero will have the notes from their missed classes. Read story
Your Health Habits, Digitized
Julia Hu founded Lark Technologies to help people live healthier lives, and it does this by turning boring health data into compelling content. Read story
Candyland for Code Collaborators
To create their online portal for programmers, the three founders of Github took themselves "to the brink and back." Now they have $100 million to spend. Read story
Lyft's New $60M: How the Deal Went Down
Andreessen Horowitz chooses its horse in the increasingly competitive car-hailing and ride-sharing space. Here's why it put $60 million behind Lyft. Read story
Another NYC Win for Uber and Hailo: Payments
Forget about the Benjamins: In two months, e-hailing taxicab apps Uber and Hailo will process payments, New York City promises. Read story
How We Got Funded: Visual Revenue
When bootstrapping didn't cut it, the founders of Visual Revenue went out and raised $2.2 million. Read story
Cory Booker: Start-ups Will Define America's Future
The Newark mayor and video-site founder spent the past week hanging out with hackers, founders, and tech geeks. Here's why. Read story
Inside an $8.6 Million Kickstarter Project
Julie Uhrman, founder of the Ouya game console, tells South by Southwest the challenges--and power--that come with having 63,000 backers. Read story
Elon Musk: 'This Is Real, in Case You Can't Tell'
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk doesn't want to die before humans set foot on Mars. So he's making it happen. Read story
Alexis Ohanian: How I Got Washington to Listen to Start-ups
Now, the Reddit co-founder keeps getting asked: When are you going to run for Congress? Read story
Taxi-Hailing Battle Heats Up in New York
Hailo announced it raised a new $30 million round of funding led by Union Square Ventures. Here's what that means. Read story
Inside Uber's Latest Taxi Launch
Armed with a new transportation bill that's still awaiting the mayor's signature, the sedan-hailing app now calls certain cabs in Washington, D.C. Here's how... Read story
The Secret to Winning a Start-up Competition
Your PowerPoint is awesome (and memorized). Your pitch is crystal clear. You're adequately caffeinated and totally pumped up. Here's why that's just not eno... Read story
Mayra Jimenez: Starting From Scratch
Mayra Jimenez's swimwear company, The Orchid Boutique, highlights the talents of her native Colombia Watch video
How Shutterstock Went From Zero to IPO
Jon Oringer had created a dozen tech start-ups before buying one $800 camera to seed his own stock-photo business. Now that company is worth $760 million. Read story
Inside Geoloqi's Unusual (& Fascinating) Acquisition
There's nothing typical about founder Amber Case. And this isn't your typical M&A deal. Here's how it happened. Read story
Guy Kawasaki: Enchant Customers Like Apple, Zappos & Virgin
Investor and author Guy Kawasaki says the business world needs more charm. Here's his 10-step formula to enchant customers--and build a great big company. Read story
Facebook COO: Small Business Is Web's Holy Grail
As Sheryl Sandberg courts Madison Avenue and Wall Street this week, she discussed Facebook's IPO fallout and wooing small business. Read story
What Makes a Cool Office?
Short answer: It's more than just a billiards table and free soda. Design buffs weigh in on how to build a creative, collaborative, and innovative workspace. Read story
How 'Confidential' IPOs Are Changing the Market
In April, the JOBS Act ushered in a new way to go public. It's already popular. Read story
A Hard Day's Night
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Why I Love Giving Second Chances--to People and Machines
Michael Dadashi uses his electronics resale business to save lives, literally, by hiring recovering alcoholics to work for his company. Read story
Inside Thrillist's Grand Plan For Growth
Ben Lerer and Adam Rich's dude-centric e-commerce and newsletter company brought in $32 million last year, so what's the deal, man, with the new $13 million ... Read story
2 Guys Who Want to Teach the World to Code
Pair a whiz-kid programmer with a guy who can't learn to code, and what do you get? One of the biggest start-up stories of the year. Read story
Making Location Services Slick & Simple
Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case teamed up with location whiz Aaron Parecki to build a platform for mobile location services. (Oh, and they're helping save l... Read story
Introducing the 2 Young Men Who Made Pinterest
Pinterest, the beautiful, wildly popular, image-sharing site, was founded by three friends with vastly different skills and interests. Here's how it grew to ... Read story
The Law Is on Our Side (Because We Helped Write It)
Jessica Scorpio struggled for years to get her company, Getaround, off the ground, largely due to one massive roadblock. Read story
Shark Tank's Accidental Entrepreneur: Robert Herjavec
This CEO sold his last company to Nokia for $225 million. Now he's aiming for a billion-dollar business. Here's how Robert Herjavec went from penniless Canad... Read story
How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet
Reddit, created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, was one of the first start-ups out of the Y Combinator program to be acquired, making Ohanian a 23-year-... Read story
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Founders of Instagram
Two Stanford fellows built a pared-down photo app into a $1 billion idea. Here's the original story on Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's early struggles. Read story
Where Pinterest Will Go From Here
Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann explains why the social network updated its profile pages, and future plans for more extensive changes. Read story
How Fear of Embarrassment Kept Pinterest Alive
Ben Silbermann, founder of the uber-popular social bulletin board site, explains why he persisted in building Pinterest despite its super-slow initial growth. Read story
SXSW Day 1: Startup Buses Take Texas
Arriving in San Antonio, 10 busloads worth of brand new companies unload their ideas on venture capitalists. And it gets crazy. Read story
Don't Miss These 5 Things at SXSW
SXSW Interactive is one of the biggest tech and start-up conferences of the year. It's also overwhelming. Here are our must-see sessions. Read story
Richard Branson: You're Taking Your Business Too Seriously
Chill out, make your workplace fun, and do something socially responsible with your wealth, says the founder of the Virgin Group. Read story
Richard Branson: My Plan to End Occupy Wall Street
The billionaire sympathizes with OWS, and he has a plan for sending the protesters home satisfied. Entrepreneurs, he wants your help. Read story
Innovation: A Blood Test on a Chip
Claros Diagnostics has created the mChip, which can produce accurate test results from a single drop of blood in 10 minutes. Read story